Center intern Chloe Doan participates in a ritual dance with local villagers and other volunteers during her trip to Nepal, which was made possible by a generous donation to the Center.
» COE & IFYC
SMC joined colleges and universities from all over the U.S. at the kick-off conference for the White House Interfaith and Community Service Campus Challenge. » SMC Interfaith Projects
The Center engages the value of religious pluralism with economic justice. Here, drawing on the world religions, Center Director Barbara A. McGraw is speaking on "The Moral Economy in Global Perspective" in Varanasi, India » Religious Pluralism & Economic Justice
Prison Religion Project
The Center engages the value of religious pluralism to address religious accommodation in prisons. » Prison Religion Project
One of the Center's interfaith initiatives is an annual interfaith speaking event. Eboo Patel, director of the Interfaith Youth Core, was our first interfaith speaker in 2009.
» Annual Interfaith Speaker Event
America's Sacred Ground
Director McGraw coined the term "America's Sacred Ground" for the American founders' framework and values, which have religious pluralism at their heart. » America's Sacred Ground
Religious Pluralism Engaging Political Culture and Public Policy
Our Mission:
The Center for Engaged Religious Pluralism addresses issues in the public square by engaging religiously diverse perspectives to work toward a more inclusive political culture and solutions to public policy issues. For decades, 
U.S. popular political debate has been framed as an argument between religious right and secular left. That frame is becoming outmoded as an interfaith movement 
has begun to take hold in the U.S. and around the world, fostering greater understanding and cooperation among people of many faiths.
Since 2008, the Center has contributed to that trend by advocating a different way to frame the popular political discourse through the “America’s Sacred Ground” project and providing opportunities for a wide spectrum of religious viewpoints to be heard. This work offers insights for creative, spiritually inspired approaches to public policy in areas such as prison inmate religious accommodation and economic justice, and cultivates student 
interfaith leadership and engagement.
"Conversations in the public square about religion, politics, and public policy too often are limited to a divide between the religious right and secular liberals. The Center strives to broaden the dialogue to include perspectives from all of the world's religions." -- Dr. Barbara A. McGraw, Director
©2008-2012 Barbara A. McGraw All rights on the Center for Engaged Religious Pluralism site reserved.
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